EMAP announces 15 artists for the 2026 residency programme
https://www.neme.org/blog/emap-2026-residencies
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) is pleased to announce the selection of 15 artists for its 2026 residency programme. Out of 643 submissions from across Europe, the participating member institutions jointly selected the artists during the jury conference hosted at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milano.
EMAP is a European platform and residency programme dedicated to supporting emerging artists working in media art and related fields, including digital, technological, and interdisciplinary practices. The platform fosters collaboration between leading media art institutions across Europe, providing artists with the opportunity to develop and produce new work within an international context.
The 2026 selection reflects the transnational scope of the programme. The participating artists come from a range of European contexts and institutional backgrounds, underlining EMAP’s role as a platform for exchange, mobility, and collaboration across different cultural and geographic environments.
The selected artists will join residencies at one of EMAP’s member institutions, gaining production support, access to facilities, and the opportunity to develop new projects in close exchange with local contexts and international peers.
The 2026 programme brings together a wide spectrum of artistic approaches and topics, engaging with contemporary questions through experimental, technological, and research-based practices.
- Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria): Calin Segal
- Chroniques (Marseille, France): Noemi Iglesias Barrios
- CIKE Creative Industry Košice (Košice, Slovakia): Ida Hiršenfelder
- gnration (Braga, Portugal): Dr. Lea Luka Tiziana Sikau
- iMAL (Brussels, Belgium): Éva Csonka
- IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (Utrecht, Netherlands): Paolo Cirio
- Kersnikova Institute [Kapelica Gallery] (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Ivan Iovine
- KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis (Zagreb, Croatia): Where Dogs Run
- LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Spain): Seyed Mohsen Hazrati Far
- Meet Digital Culture Center (Milano, Italy): Ariella Vidach
- NeMe (Limassol, Cyprus): César Escudero Andaluz
- Onassis Foundation (Athens, Greece): Celine Daemen
- RIXC Centre for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia): Agnieszka Pokrywka
- Werkleitz Centre for Media Art (Halle/Saale, Germany): Loïs Soleil
- WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland): Thomas Garnier
We are looking forward to a year shaped by wounded landscapes and ecological recovery, intimate entanglements with AI, strategies to confront algorithmic bias, and critical reflections on data, infrastructure, and power.
